
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Bought this game to conquer the galaxy, ended up spending 9 hours managing my economy, arguing with space frogs over an asteroid, and somehow starting a war because I accidentally insulted a species I didn’t even know existed. 10/10, would ruin my sleep schedule again.
The game got too many expansions over the years and now it's just a mess. Honestly I wish I could recommend it but the sad reality is that it's just a mess right now too much of everything and nothing makes sense anymore or is even enjoyable to play. Greed destroyed the best space 4X strategy game.
Was fun once, but the game includes generative AI and one million different ways for the developer to squeeze money out of its player base.
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Before I state anything, I would like to say that yes, this is a game that I have put a lot of hours into, and one that I still do enjoy, however, I simply can no longer recommend it with full confidence after paradox have decided to use ai in place of real voice actors. Generative ai is a Cancer toward the very idea of human creativity as a whole and while I have no intentions of dropping the game myself after this long of a time playing it, I will no longer be monetarily supporting anything this company makes after the fact and will be dissuading others from doing so. please, if you are considering getting this, perhaps instead put your money toward a Developer that actually respects the creatives upon which the very bones of this hobby is built.
i dont recommend this game anymore,this game used to be way better than now but paradox finds a way to ruin the game every second update, first like every other pdx game it has to have 30dlc's of wich most are just mods locked behind a paywall,some mods like gigastructural engeniering or dark space add more features/origins or megastructures than most of pdx dlc's, second the performance of this game is absolutly horrible,if you dont turn of any empires and only allow pre ftl civilizations at game start you bascicly cant play this game past the early/mid game,and how is the performance so bad if the ai builds like no fleets and have those horrible managed planets?pdx should make it so that ai planets have a base ammount of resource production so that the game has to do less calculations,but that whould take development time from developing the 20th slop dlc with 3new origins and 5new civics,and the 4.3 update was supossed to "improve" performance by reducing ship counts,in reality it just made the game less realistic and the performance with many ai empires is still terrible,that had the negative side effect of making average to below average players struggeling even more with endgame criseses and fallen/awakened empires, third,they break the game in every third update,for example in the last update they had to change the megastructure building ui for no reason,that broke multiple megastructures in gigastructural engeniering and it also it broke the display of the output of megastructures and they also reworked the automation ui for science and construction ships wich also broke ui overhaul dynamic a mod that should be part of the base game. in conclusion i dont recomend buying the game if you dont have a nasa supercomputer or have too much money,also dont buy the dlc subscription,just pirate the dlc's to test them out and if you like them you can buy them but i whoulnt give this terrible companie that releases early acces games at launch and only makes them good after 15dlc's and or patches,they dont need the money,they have enough and use it for the absolutly wrongs thing.
Uno dei 4x più completi e apprezzati sul mercato, immenso e profondo, con tonnellate di DLC, in pienissima tradizione e continuità Paradox, che se da un lato continua ad aggiornare i propri prodotti con contenuti anche dopo anni dal rilascio, dall'altro crea una frammentazione dell'esperienza dietro pagamento non indifferente. In ogni caso, se vi piace lo spazio e vi piace il genere 4x, allora Stellaris resta un'esperienza imprescindibile, nonostante gli anni sul groppone. Cheers...allo Spazioporto.
In fact, Stellaris can be considered one of the most pragmatic real-time strategy games. Perhaps the most common trend and, if I may say so, the problem of many strategies is the radical imbalance between the economic and military aspects of state simulation. Typically, strategies prioritize either the military or the economic simulation. However, Stellaris stands out for its well-balanced approach to these two distinct areas. Yes, they are not implemented as meticulously as they could be implemented individually, but the current level of development in the game is sufficient for an interesting, engaging, and most importantly, multi-scenario game. This is why I can confidently say that Stellaris is one of the most pragmatic strategies that does not limit the player's freedom.
its alright the reason i play it mostly is the mods playing as the UNSC from halo fullfillng my dream of a halo navy game but it updates so reguarlly and with such drastic changes so often it kills a lot of the mods
FIX THE BUGS!!!!!!!!! Don't buy DLC!!! The half of them is broken!!!!